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M 3.3ml
Earthquake near Barview, OR
No earthquake was likely felt in Barview in the 24 hours to 10:33 pm PST (06:33 UTC). The last one was M 4.9, 170 km (106 mi) SW, at 2:55 am PDT on 6 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 5 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Barview
This page: a magnitude 3.3 earthquake was recorded 14 km (9 mi) southwest of Barview, OR, at 10:42 pm PST on 4 December 2016 (06:42 UTC), 16 km deep. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.
USGS: 14 km SW of Barview, Oregon
- When
- 10:42 pm PST on 4 December 2016 ()
- Where
- 14 km (9 mi) southwest of Barview, OR · earthquakes near Barview
- Magnitude
- M 3.3 (ml)
- Depth
- 16 km below the surface
- Felt
- 4 reports · strongest reported intensity II
- Measured shaking
- intensity III (ShakeMap)
- Nearest
- Coos County, 30 km ESE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Coquille anticline, 8 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3542 days ago
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This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 49 km (30 mi) from the epicentre. In Barview, 14 km away, the estimate is intensity III (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Bandon, Coos Bay, Bunker Hill, Coquille, North Bend.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× more
Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.
For this area
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 43.2698, -124.4413. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coos County, OR | 30 km (18 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Coos County |
| Curry County, OR | 91 km (57 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Curry County |
| Douglas County, OR | 104 km (65 mi) | E | earthquakes near Douglas County |
| Josephine County, OR | 121 km (75 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Josephine County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
46 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.6 12 km ESE of Myrtle Point, Oregon
- 1.6 10 km NNW of Bandon, Oregon
- 1.6 12 km ENE of Glasgow, Oregon
- 2.0 47 km WNW of Barview, Oregon
- 2.3 19 km WSW of Barview, Oregon
- 2.2 22 km WSW of Barview, Oregon
- 2.3 21 km WSW of Barview, Oregon
- 2.6 10 km NW of Langlois, Oregon
- 1.5 15 km ESE of Myrtle Point, Oregon
- 1.5 5 km ESE of Coquille, Oregon
- 2.4 6 km NE of Bandon, Oregon
- 1.5 11 km E of Glasgow, Oregon
- 2.0 21 km WSW of Bandon, Oregon
- 1.6 4 km W of Powers, Oregon
- 2.0 9 km SW of Langlois, Oregon
Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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